Countries
India, Nepal
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal
Rajastan, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Nepal, Pakistan
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Hindi
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4842
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
khammaghani
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
shubh raatri
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Shubh Havar
Please
कृपया
kirpa
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maaf Karo
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
bye
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Doteli
Jogi
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
790,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Bagri
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million14.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Marwari
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
népalais
marvari
German Name
Nepali
Marwari
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
19 BC
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Marwari
Language Position
5972
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mwr
ISO 639 3
npi
mwr
ISO 639 6
nep
mwr
Glottocode
nepa1254
raja1256
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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